For the first time in 19 years, Hanukkah will fall on the same day as Christmas. Beginning at sundown, the eight-day celebration will be celebrated across the region and beyond. 

The Jewish festival commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem after it was desecrated during Assyrian-Greek persecution thousands of years ago. A small group of Jews lit a menorah with only enough oil for one day to symbolize God's presence, but the menorah stayed lit for eight days and was proclai…